Tree-holder.



'PATENTED MAR; 31, 1908. I

P.RAUOH.

' TREE HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 6.1907.

WITNESSES AnoRNEyg moron. n. c.

FRANK RAUCH, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

TREE-HOLDER.

Application filed June 6, 1907.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 31, 1908.

Serial No. 377,517.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK RAUoH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Milwaukee, county of Milwaukee, and State of Wisconsin, have invented new and useful Improvements in Tree-Holders, oi which the following is a'specification.

Mydnvention relates to improvements in that class of tree holders in which the clamp ing mechanism of the holder is retained in contact with the tree and caused to impinge with more or less pressure according to the weight of the tree, and it ertains more especial y to the means emp oyed for pivota ly connecting the several tree supported brackets with a single center piece upon which the base of the tree rests.

The construction of my invention is eX- plained by reference to the accompanying drawings, in which,

Figure 1 is a side view. Fig. 2 is a detail, and Fig. 3 a bottom View of the center piece.

Like parts are indentified by the same reference figures throughout the several views.

1 represents the tree, 2 the center piece upon which the tree is supported, and 3 the supporting brackets. The center piece 2 comprises the radial arms 4 and a central vertical barb 5 which is adapted to penetrate the lower end of the tree. The several brackets 3 comprise the legs 6, inwardly projecting barbs 7 which are adapted to penetrate the sides of the tree, lateral proj ections 8 upon which the radial arms 4 of the center piece are adapted to rest, and lateral projections 9 against which the upper side of said radial arms 4 are adapted to bear. The radial arms 4 are provlded on their lower sides with concave recesses 10 for the reception of the lateral projections 8, and recess 11 for the reception of the sides of the brackets 3.

It will now be understood that when desirous to connect such arts together, the sides of the several brac ets 3 are inserted between the lateral projections 8 and 9 formed on the respective sides of the bracket 3, whereby as the downward pressure is brought to bear on the center 1ece 2 said projections 8 and 9 are adapted to impinge upon the respective sides of the arms 7,

whereby said center piece is supported from said le s. This being done the tree is centrally located u on the center piece 2 between-the severa barbs 7, when owing to the downward pressure of the tree upon the center piece 2, said barbs 7 are caused to penetrate the vertical sides of the tree and thereby rigidly support said tree in place between the converging ends of said barbs. Thus it is obvious that the barbs 7 will be forced with greater or less pressure against the, vertical sides of the tree according to the downward pressure of the tree upon said center iece.

Havlng thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is,

In a tree holder of the classdescribed, a central member comprising a plurality of radial arms and a central barb, the other end of each of said arms having recesses on the under side and projections on the upper side above the recesses in combination with a FRANK RAUOH.

Witnesses:

LEvEEETT C. WHEELER, 0. R. ERWIN. 

